Part 1 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17)

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🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Part 1 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part II on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part III on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.4	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.0	Namaste and welcome.
0:28.0	I'd like to begin tonight with a story that's written by Zen Teacher Ed Brown,
0:35.0	who was one of the founders of the Greens restaurant.
0:39.0	Many of you know of in San Francisco.
0:42.0	And when he became a cook in the Zen Center's whole life story came into focus
0:49.0	as he was making this effort to create the perfect biscuits.
0:53.0	So here's the story.
0:56.0	When I first started cooking at Tassahara, I had a problem.
0:59.0	I couldn't get my biscuits to come out the way they were supposed to.
1:03.0	I'd follow the recipe and try variations, but nothing worked.
1:06.0	These biscuits just didn't measure up.
1:10.0	Growing up, I had made two kinds of biscuits.
1:13.0	One was from Biscuit and the other from Pillsbury.
1:16.0	For the Biscuit biscuits, you added milk to the mix and then you blob the dough
1:20.0	and spoonfuls onto the pan.
1:22.0	You didn't even need to roll them out.
1:24.0	The biscuits from Pillsbury came in a kind of cardboard can.
1:27.0	You wrapped the can on the corner of the counter and it popped open.
1:31.0	Then you twisted the can open more, put those pre-made biscuits on a pan and bake them.
1:37.0	I really like those Pillsbury biscuits.
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